Overview of Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a next-generation security management service that offers threat protection and vulnerability management for resources running on the cloud, on-premises, and in hybrid environments. Defender for Cloud leverages Microsoft's data ecosystem to process trillions of signals through machine learning algorithms to help detect, identify, and protect against many different types of threats across multiple workloads.

At the time of writing, all Windows and Linux operating systems are supported for versions that are compatible with the Log Analytics agent, as Defender for Cloud uses Azure Monitor Logs for analysis. Defender for Cloud includes two plans – one with enhanced security features off (free) and one with enhanced security features enabled for all plans. Enabling a Defender plan does come with an additional cost but can also be applied by resource type if you wish to selectively turn them off.. Leaving...